An Aikido Life (12)

The following translation from the Japanese-language autobiography entitled “Aikido Jinsei” (An Aikido Life) by Gozo Shioda Sensei of Yoshinkan Aikido is published with the kind permission of the author and the publisher, Takeuchi Shoten Shinsha. The series began with AIKI NEWS No. 72.
Luck doesn’t hold out forever. It was late September 1941. Above the roof of the villa in which we lived and looked after the Vietnamese, the Rising Sun flag always fluttered in the wind.